According to C. Geertz, one of the basic tasks of ethnological research is revealing and comprehending people’s noetic experience to convey some of its elements to those whose experience is gained on the other roads. To explore traditions of upbringing among Jews of Chisinau, we apply an interdisciplinary noetic system of concepts consistently oriented towards identifying implicit content of activity of mythological consciousness. Historical events are included in processes of upbringing for the reason that adults react to what is happening in one way or another. Maxims of their actions happen to be included in the treasury of noetic experience of their children’s perceiving consciousness. Subsequently, they — oft en in a non-linear way — share this experience with the perceiving consciousness they are in contact with (in particular, with their own children). By using the above-mentioned tools, we demonstrate that, in his memoirs, Josef Daylis (1893—1984) communicates the paradigm of opposition to evil which predetermined his relatives’ and neighbors’ actions during the pogrom in 1903. Even in a situation which seems to be invariably lost in the battle with evil, one can fi nd an opportunity to resist it — both by actions in the material world and metaphysically (noetically, by endeavors of the spirit). Trouble should be met with a courageous augmentation of good.